cut almost 6000 jobs from its defense and space unit. let's get more details on what happens next from david tweed. he joins us from berlin. the origins of this restructure must lie with the failed merger with bae systems. since then, management looking very carefully at this unit. >> not that long ago, management wanted to see half of the business coming from the airbus civil aircraft business and half of the business coming from defense and space. since the merger was dropped by the germans, they have stepped right away from this. it is also a reflection of the drop in spending that we are seeing in europe. that is something that tom eggers was talking about. markets in europe are particularly down. one example is that, think about it. france put in orders for 50 a- 400 military aircraft transport planes. in the budget, only 15 were actually budgeted. they are not getting the support that they were looking for from european governments who are big shareholders. why keep up the unwieldy infrastructure of defense companies? seeing why we